Venice, Italy

I recently updated the Venice, Italy photography gallery on my website. Please go check it out. This image below was created after I had been shooting gondoliers for awhile and wanted to do something beyond just a standard shot in order to capture the motion of the gondoliers and the gondolas. Fortunately, I had found a canal that was a popular gondolier hangout with gondolas passing by every few seconds. Southern Americans might equate this particular canal to their local Sonic Drive-In on a Friday or Saturday night.

One of things I lucked out on was the combination of capturing the motion just as I intended and having a gondolier subject in the frame that was dressed, well, like a gondolier should be. If you've never been to Venice I don't want to spoil your idealized visions of it for you, but the truth is some gondoliers, certainly a minority, look more like teenagers at a Sonic Drive-In than gondoliers. This one though clearly has his gondolier wardrobe altogether.

Gondolier in Venice, Italy

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